Argentina and the Holocaust

Yesterday I spent several hours immersing myself at the Museo del Holocausto, staring into images of the Nazi Concentration Camps and reading over stories of survivors who had made Argentina their home. The Argentine perspective on all of this is unique in that following WWII the government negotiated the entry of several war criminals including Adolf Eichmann who entered Argentina with false papers, naming him Richard Klement. The exhibit discusses how he lived "entre nosotros," amongst the Argentine populace. He sold juice on a street corner and then worked at a hydro-electric plant and as technician at Mercedes Benz. In 1960 he was extradited to Israel for a tribunal wherein he was prosecuted for his role in the Final Solution, the transporting of millions of Jews to death camps between 1942 and 1944. Here are some images from the exhibit--

Poster from an anti-semetic magazine

Before the Final Solution of mass extermination of the Jews, Gypsies and Gays, it was proposed that the Jews be sent to the island of Madagascar to live amongst themselves. That solution was ultimately rejected in that being alive, they´d continue to reproduce..

Eichmann´s final words prior to his execution..."long live Germany, long live Austria, long live Argentina These are the countries with which I most identify and will never forget"